K&L Gates has cut roughly ten percent of its business-services workforce, removing staff from accounting, marketing, and IT departments, several of whom had more than a decade at the firm.
The layoffs represent a significant internal restructuring at the international law firm, with long-serving employees among those shown the door in what critics have called a blunt cost-cutting exercise.
Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney and fired by the administration fifty-four minutes later, cleared out for the same first-assistant shell game that keeps rendering indictments worthless.
The extraordinarily brief tenure raised immediate questions about political interference in federal prosecutorial appointments, with observers noting the pattern of disruption this creates across active cases.
Pepperdine’s Paul Caron has run the ABA numbers to project the 2027 U.S. News law school rankings, reigniting debate about whether Yale can reclaim its position at the top of the table.
Yale was knocked out of the top spot for the first time ever this year, and Caron’s projections have set legal academia speculating about whether the historic fall from grace will prove permanent.
The Department of Justice has told all 93 U.S. Attorney’s offices that every line prosecutor must keep at least 25 open matters at all times, raising concerns about workload management across federal districts.
The DOJ has also hit all nine Biglaw firms that bought their way out of Trump’s executive orders with subpoenas and deposition notices, demanding their communications with Boris Epshteyn.
The subpoenas drag in the very firm leaders who signed the $940 million in deals to avoid this scrutiny in the first place, a development that has stunned partners who believed the agreements offered protection.
Legal scholars reviewing Kathryn Ruemmler’s closed-door House Oversight testimony about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein called it “classic gaslighting,” adding another charged dimension to an already politically sensitive inquiry.
Amy Coney Barrett, who once told the public to “read the opinion” before judging the Court, informed Congress that it is inappropriate to expect the justices to actually explain their shadow-docket opinions.
A lawsuit to block Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming dean of Kentucky Law over faculty objections was kicked upstairs after every judge on the relevant court acknowledged a conflict in a case against their colleague.
A federal judge cited the unitary executive theory back at the administration after successfully getting the Supreme Court to bless the idea that Donald Trump controls everything the government does, except the Fed.
The judge used the doctrine to push back on an attempt to sue the federal government to give the administration a sweeping release and what critics described as a slush fund for political allies.